This is a function of your theme, in your case “MX4” and (although I don’t know the theme) you should start by looking at the header.php file, if one exists.
What excatly are we looking for?
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<?php require_once get_template_directory().”/BX_functions.php”; ?>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”>
<head>
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” />
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=”text/css” media=”screen, projection” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘atom_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
<?php /*comments_popup_script(520, 550);*/ ?>
<?php wp_head();?>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”container”<?php if (is_page() && !is_page(“archives”)) echo ” class=\”singlecol\””; ?>>
<div id=”bloginfo”>“><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> | <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></div>
<!– header …………………………… –>
<div id=”header”>
<!– <h1>“><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></h1>–>
</div>
<!– /header –>
<!– navigation …………………………… –>
<div id=”navigation”>
<form action=”<?php echo $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]; ?>” method=”get”>
<fieldset>
<input value=”<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>” name=”s” id=”s” />
<input type=”submit” value=”Go!” id=”searchbutton” name=”searchbutton” />
</fieldset>
</form>
<li<?php if (is_home()) echo ” class=\”selected\””; ?>>“>Home
<?php
$pages = BX_get_pages();
if ($pages) {
foreach ($pages as $page) {
$page_id = $page->ID;
$page_title = $page->post_title;
$page_name = $page->post_name;
if ($page_name == “archives”) {
(is_page($page_id) || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single())?$selected = ‘ class=”selected”‘:$selected=”;
echo “<li”.$selected.”>Archives\n”;
}
elseif($page_name == “about”) {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class=”selected”‘:$selected=”;
echo “<li”.$selected.”>About\n”;
}
elseif ($page_name == “contact”) {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class=”selected”‘:$selected=”;
echo “<li”.$selected.”>Contact\n”;
}
elseif ($page_name == “about_short”) {/*ignore*/}
else {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ‘ class=”selected”‘:$selected=”;
echo “<li”.$selected.”>$page_title\n”;
}
}
}
?>
</div><!– /navigation –>
<hr class=”low” />
This is the section which appears to dynamically generate your navigation menu:
<?php
$pages = BX_get_pages();
if ($pages) {
foreach ($pages as $page) {
$page_id = $page->ID;
$page_title = $page->post_title;
$page_name = $page->post_name;
if ($page_name == "archives") {
(is_page($page_id) || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single())?$selected = ' class="selected"':$selected='';
echo "<li".$selected.">Archives\n";
}
elseif($page_name == "about") {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ' class="selected"':$selected='';
echo "<li".$selected.">About\n";
}
elseif ($page_name == "contact") {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ' class="selected"':$selected='';
echo "<li".$selected.">Contact\n";
}
elseif ($page_name == "about_short") {/*ignore*/}
else {
(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ' class="selected"':$selected='';
echo "<li".$selected.">$page_title\n";
}
}
}
?>
If you’re not comfortable with editing the code, perhaps contact the theme author?
but i mean, is there a way to just create a page or a blog and leave them floating around. So if i publish a blog it won’t appear on the news page?
Given that creating pages is something that happens less frequently. why not just hardcode the page links into the sidebar ?
Hide what you want, position them where you want and use the order you want.
